Plays & Poetry

Roisin Kelly's Mercy is an attempt to reconcile her Irish Catholic background with her pagan heritage, transcending the limits of a world in which everything is connected. Both intimate and political, this powerful debut collection combines a passionate exploration of self with an awestruck confrontation of wilderness. Roisin Kelly lives in Cork.

A powerful debut compelled by questions of borders and displacement. In one story I stay in that city forever, in one I board, and in another I am still waiting. I am daybreak; In doing so, Kuta Kelly explores the loss and displacement - the fracture of identity - necessitated by personal and political turmoil.

When friend Danny steals a tenner and Dad stands for the local council, it's only the start of a turbulent term for Tyke Tiler. This title contains activities to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students meet its objectives. It includes work on Speaking and Listening, text analysis, and the structure of playscripts.

A daring first collection from an exciting young Irish poet, tackling how to live with the past and not be consumed by it.

The highly anticipated second collection from the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022.

This issue features new poems from Aoife Lyall, Victoria Chang, Joe Carrick-Varty, Éireann Lorsung, and Padraig Regan as well as work from emerging poets Cora Crampton and Kasandra Ferguson, among many others. Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes poetry from Áine Ní Ghlinn, Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, and prose from Proinsias Ó Drisceoil.

The ultimate reader's companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively "companion" commentary to go with and illuminate each poem. Modern poets include Delmore Schwartz, whose sense of conflict between self and society gave birth to this anthology's title-poem, 'The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me'.

Familiar Strangers is Brendan Kennelly's own selection from over 20 poetry books written over five decades. This landmark volume replaces his earlier selections A Time for Voices, Breathing Spaces and Begin.

Published on his 75th birthday, this new selection presents just over a hundred of Brendan Kennelly's most essential poems, accompanied by an audio CD of his own readings drawn from two classic recordings.